SCIO briefing on administrative approval system reform
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Southern Metropolis Daily:
The Third Plenum of the 18th CPC Central Committee has required a power list system be established. Now, we see local governments are doing a better job than ministries and national commissions -- except for the National Health and Family Planning Commission -- in terms of making public of the powers they exercise. How is this work being advanced? What will be the next step in implementation.
Li Zhangze:
More than a third of provincial governments have made public their power lists. You may have also noticed that, on March 17 this year, Scopsr.gov.cn listed 1,235 items that required administrative approvals from 60 departments in the State Council. This list amounts to a power list, although it featured a smaller scope compared with those made by local governments.
Our list is being constantly modified, which means items are being dropped. After March 17, we cancelled or delegated authority in regard to another two batches of approval-required items. Another 87 will be released soon. The items has obtained State Council approval and awaits legal amendment in regard to its policy basis. This is how the list is being steadily improved.
The practice of the power list in government agencies is an attempt to "put power in a cage". In his report to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress entitled "Deepening Reform on Administrative Approval and Stepping up Transformation of Government Functions," Mr. Yang Jing, a member of Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, and Secretary-General of the State Council, called for further work on the power list and a negative list management mode. This will "make the government do whatever the law says" and "prohibit the government from doing whatever the law bans". We also encourage citizens, legal persons as well as other organizations to "do whatever the law does not prohibit". The power list management mode is an important direction in terms of advancing administrative structural reform.
Thank you!
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